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    Heart autonomic innervation during the acute phase of the experimental American trypanosomiasis in the dog.
    (1998) Machado, Conceição Ribeiro da Silva; Caliari, Marcelo Vidigal; Lana, Marta de; Tafuri, Washington Luiz
    Heart autonomic innervation was studied in dogs during the acute phase of the experimental infection with the Berenice-78 strain of Trypanosoma cruzi. A glyoxylic acid–induced fluorescence method for catecholamines and a thiocholine method for demonstrating acetylcholinesterase activity showed the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nerve fibers, respectively. At day 34 of infection, moderate-to-intense rarefaction of both cholinergic and noradrenergic nerve fibers occurred in the atria of all animals coincident with moderate to intense myocarditis. In the ventricles, sympathetic denervation was clearly present only when the inflammatory processes were moderate to intense. Preliminary results on the chronic phase indicate that normal autonomic innervation coexists with an incipient chronic fibrosing myocarditis.
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    Compared vectorial transmissibility of pure and mixed clonal genotypes of Trypanosoma cruzi in Triatoma infestans.
    (1998) Pinto, Artur da Silveira; Lana, Marta de; Bastrenta, Brigitte; Barnabé, Christian; Quesney, Virginie; Noel, Sébastien; Tibayrenc, Michel
    A total of 15 mixtures involving 9 di erent stocks attributed to the 19/20, 32 and 39 major clonal genotypes of Trypanosoma cruzi were used to infect third-instar nymphs of Triatoma infestans via an arti®- cial feeding device. Three biological parameters were considered: (1) the percentage of infected insects (%II), (2) the number of ¯agellates per insect (NFI), and (3) the percentage of trypomastigotes per insect (%DIF). Ge- netic characterization by both multilocus enzyme elec- trophoresis (MLEE) and random ampli®cation of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) indicated that in almost all cases (87%), mixtures remained present after completion of the whole cycle in the insect vector. Two lines of comparison were performed: (1) pure clonal genotypes versus corresponding mixed clonal genotypes and (2) the actual behavior of mixed clonal genotypes versus the expected behavior of the theoretical mixture (i.e. the arithmetic mean of the results observed for each of the two clonal genotypes taken separately). Statistical analyses of the variables were made di cult because of the presence of large standard deviations. Nevertheless, in several cases, mixtures di ered signi®cantly from pure clonal genotypes, and in one case the actual mixture di ered signi®cantly from the theoretical mixture. In some cases, interaction (either potentialization or re- ciprocal inhibition) could be suspected.
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    Characterization of two isolates of Trypanosoma cruzi obtained from the patient Berenice, the first human case of Chagas disease.
    (1996) Lana, Marta de; Chiari, Cléa de Andrade; Chiari, Egler; Morel, Carlos Medicis; Gonçalves, Antônio M.; Romanha, Alvaro José
    Two isolates of Trypanosoma cruzi were obtained from the patient Berenice, the first human case of Chagas’ disease (Chagas 1909), when she was 55 and 71 years old, respectively. The isolates were characterized on the basis of their epimastigote-trypomastigote differentiation in liquid media and of the electrophoretic pattern of EcoR1 digestion products of kinetoplast DNA (k- DNA) minicircles (schizodeme) and isoenzyme patterns (zymodeme). Clear differences were found between the isolates, suggesting the occurrence of a heterogeneous population of T. cruzi in the infection of this patient.
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    Humoral immune response in dogs experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi.
    (1991) Lana, Marta de; Vieira, Lauro Mello; Coelho, George Luiz Lins Machado; Chiari, Egler; Veloso, Vanja Maria; Tafuri, Washington Luiz